AIDS and global security
| Autor: | Gwyn Prins |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Great power
Sociology and Political Science Scope (project management) business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Public relations medicine.disease Politics Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Law Political Science and International Relations Pandemic medicine International security Sociology Dimension (data warehouse) PRISM (surveillance program) business media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Affairs. 80:931-952 |
| ISSN: | 1468-2346 0020-5850 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1468-2346.2004.00426.x |
| Popis: | AIDS has been medically visible for 30 years; but only in the last five have the security implications of the pandemic begun to be discussed seriously. This debate has been in many ways unsatisfactory to date. The purpose of this article is to begin to rectify this at the moment when the first major efforts to combat the pandemic are beginning to take effect. It records therefore the history of that debate and ascertains in what useful and defensible senses AIDS can be described and managed as a security issue. It argues that there are, indeed, several that meet these criteria. The article describes the first three engagements with the disease from the time of its discovery and then suggests three newer ones and, it argues, more fruitful approaches that have advanced since 2000 of which the security dimension is one. The others are the geo-politics of the human immune system and analysis through the prism of political economy. The scope of the next waves of AIDS after the southern African one, is depicted. Its coming intersection with oil and Great Power politics is noted. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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